Chapter 60 He's pushing you all to your deaths.
"Damn it! When will this ever end?!"
Black Fiend finally lost his patience, slammed his fist on the table, and roared menacingly:
"Stop your babbling! Do you think Black Wind Stronghold is a theater? You don't want to leave, do you? Fine! Then none of you will leave today! Stay here, all of you!"
The shout was like a thunderclap, and Xiao Lingxi was so frightened that she trembled.
Shen Moyan's expression changed drastically. He could no longer care about anything else, and grabbed Xiao Lingxi's arm tightly, urging her:
"Let's go! If we don't leave now, it will really be too late!"
He practically dragged Xiao Lingxi away by force, ignoring her trembling and cries.
Xiao Lingxi stumbled a couple of steps as he pulled her, then turned to look at Su Xiaoyu, her tears falling even harder: "Xiaoyu, I'm sorry... I will definitely come back to save you! You must wait for me!"
Soon, Xiao Lingxi and Shen Moyan disappeared into the distance, leaving Su Xiaoyu all alone in the hall.
After stumbling and falling all the way to the foot of the mountain, Xiao Lingxi suddenly broke free from Shen Moyan's grasp. She angrily rebuked him:
"Shen Moyan, how could you just abandon Xiaoyu like this! She almost didn't survive when she fell into the water to save me, and now she's been captured because of me. We're just running away like this, leaving her alone in that kind of place. What's the difference between that and killing her?"
Shen Moyan was reprimanded, and his face was filled with helplessness and heartache.
“Lingxi, wake up! Do you think I don’t want to save her? But in that situation, we were barely able to protect ourselves. That was a den of ruthless bandits. We were both unarmed. If we stayed any longer, we would both be sent to our deaths.”
"I promise you, as soon as it's light and the city gates open, I'll immediately go and report to the authorities!"
He reached out to grab Xiao Lingxi's hand, but she shoved him away.
"I can't wait until dawn, I have to go back and save Xiaoyu now..."
"Calm down!" Shen Moyan quickly stopped her, pressing his hands on her shoulders, his tone becoming more forceful:
“Going back now would be like walking into a trap! Not only would you not be able to save her life, you would also drag us all down with you. Who would save her then?”
Xiao Lingxi knew that Shen Moyan was right.
But she couldn't get past her conscience.
She couldn't imagine what Xiaoyu was going through right now; how heartbroken her older brother would be if he knew.
Xiao Lingxi looked around, then suddenly remembered something and asked Shen Moyan with a glimmer of hope.
"How did you get here? Didn't you have a carriage?"
Shen Moyan's eyes flickered, and the lie came out of his mouth immediately: "I saw you being tied up in the carriage outside the tavern. I was so anxious that I didn't care about the carriage at all. I just followed the wheel tracks all the way here..."
Xiao Lingxi was somewhat puzzled, but she was too anxious to notice certain details.
Shen Moyan calculated the time in his mind. He figured it wouldn't be long before the people from the Marquis's residence came looking for him.
He knelt down and said sincerely, "Lingxi, you've been frightened. The mountain path is difficult to walk. Let me carry you."
He actually had a carriage, but he didn't want Su Xiaoyu to live.
So he lied to Xiao Lingxi.
Only in this way, so that the people of the Yongning Marquis's mansion can see that he and Xiao Lingxi are alone in the mountains late at night, preferably with Xiao Lingxi on his back, can Xiao Lingxi's reputation be completely tied to his.
Xiao Lingxi narrowed her eyes as she looked at Shen Moyan, who had squatted down.
She suddenly remembered what Shen Moyan had said in the restaurant earlier, and his decisive abandonment of Su Xiaoyu on the mountain just now.
She hesitated.
Is Shen Moyan someone she should risk her reputation and lifelong happiness for?
Despite the pain in her ankle, she stubbornly shook her head: "No need, Young Master Shen, I can walk by myself!"
After saying that, Xiao Lingxi gritted her teeth and walked forward step by step.
Compared to everything Xiaoyu might be going through, what is her little bit of soreness?
...
at the same time.
Inside the main hall of the mountain stronghold.
Hei Sha hoisted the trembling Su Xiaoyu onto his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and walked away, ignoring her struggles and pounding due to abdominal pain.
That little bit of force was like a tickle to him.
Amidst the lewd laughter of the bandits, Black Demon carried the man back to the house.
Su Xiaoyu was roughly thrown onto the stone bed covered with animal hides, and the pain made her vision go black.
As the black figure descended like a mountain, carrying a strong smell of alcohol, it appeared.
"Little beauty, I advise you to cooperate, so you can suffer less later."
"If you serve me well tonight, you can stay in my courtyard from now on and never have to worry about food or drink."
Su Xiaoyu was so frightened that her heart felt like it was going to jump out of her chest. The extreme fear and excitement actually made her brain work at lightning speed.
We can't fight head-on; we must outsmart them!
But how could she possibly stop this bear-like man from lusting after her?
In a flash, an idea suddenly flashed through my mind.
Su Xiaoyu's mind first flashed through everything that had happened since Shen Moyan appeared; it was all too coincidental.
Black Wind Stronghold was a bandit stronghold, so it was illogical for a frail scholar to suddenly appear in the woodshed in the backyard.
How did he manage to avoid the guards at the entrance and find the woodshed so precisely?
And that kick he just gave me was clearly an act of venting his anger.
Thinking back to Shen Moyan, the character described in the original book, Su Xiaoyu immediately understood.
This whole affair was undoubtedly orchestrated by Shen Moyan.
He deliberately orchestrated the kidnapping of himself and the second young lady, so that the second young lady would be grateful for his "life-saving grace" and he could also get rid of him, a thorn in his side.
Kill two birds with one stone.
And then there was the strange reaction of the head of the gang in the main hall just now.
To verify her suspicions, Su Xiaoyu, with a burst of strength from who-knows-where, dodged Hei Sha's pounce, then looked up, trying to make her voice sound calm and collected.
"Boss! You've been used by Shen Moyan!"
"He's not saving you at all, he's pushing you and the entire Black Wind Stronghold toward death!"
The next second, Hei Sha's tall figure suddenly froze, and his violent eyes suddenly became sharp.
He stared intently at Su Xiaoyu, "You brat, you dare to spout nonsense even when you're about to die?!"
Su Xiaoyu knew that she only had one chance, and she had to seize it firmly.
She forced herself to meet Hei Sha's gaze, her speech quickening and becoming clear and logical:
"May I ask, Chief, how did Shen Moyan, a scholar who can't even kill a chicken, manage to find this mountain stronghold so precisely, and how did he manage to 'descend like a god' at the exact moment when my young lady was most frightened?"
"If I'm not mistaken, this was all at the behest of the boss, wasn't it?"
"You and Shen Moyan have reached some kind of cooperative relationship, right?"
Hei Sha raised an eyebrow, looking at the little girl in front of him with considerable surprise.
Su Xiaoyu knew she had guessed correctly, and continued typing:
"Boss, there's no need to wonder how I guessed it. It's very simple."
Shen Moyan was so stingy, claiming he wanted to save people, but why did he only take my young mistress with him in the end, showing no concern whatsoever for the life or death of me, his crucial maid? Is this befitting the behavior of a 'deeply affectionate' and 'righteous' person?
"He seems to be pleading with you, but isn't his tone implying the consequences of harming my young lady, while harming me is inconsequential? Doesn't the boss think he's deliberately... trying to get you to let me stay?"
Su Xiaoyu's words made Hei Sha's eyes darken.
"So? What do you want to say? You want me to let you go?"
"I'm telling you, it's impossible!"
As Hei Sha spoke, he was about to press down on Su Xiaoyu again.
Su Xiaoyu observed the changes in the other person's expression and knew that she had guessed correctly. She then threw out an even more explosive statement.
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